Author:
Szelewa Dorota,Polakowski Michał
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the politics of social investment in the Visegrád (V4) countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—taking the examples of two policy fields: early childhood education and care (ECEC) and active labor market policies (ALMPs). The main argument is that weak social investment in the V4 countries results from an interaction of a reaction of rejecting Soviet-style policies, the lack of a pro–social investment political coalition, and the recent explicit rejection of social investment in favor of compensation. The few social investment policies that have developed can be assigned to a V4 mode of absorption of the European Union’s structural funds, but these are limited and, in terms of their distributive profiles, and take a stratified form in ECEC and a targeted form in ALMPs.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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